Neural Pathways Conveying Novisual Information to the Visual Cortex

Figure 2

Schematic of neural pathways that convey somatosensory signals into visual areas. The solid line represents the existing connections in the normal sighted animals or human; dash line represents the rewired connections after early visual deprivation; arrows with red, blue, and black color represent the bottom-up, top-down, and bidirectional somatosensory signals, respectively. LGN: lateral geniculate nucleus; PPC: post parietal cortex; S1: primary somatosensory cortex; STS: superior temporal cortex; VLPFC: ventral lateral prefrontal cortex; V1: primary visual cortex; VP: ventral posterior nuclei.